The Importance of Antitrust in Standard Setting

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Mark Nelson, May 12, 2008

Ensuring the interoperability of products can be critical to the success of many industries, in particular to encourage the rapid uptake of new technologies. To achieve such interoperability and the efficiencies that come with it, industries often use standard-setting organizations (“SSOs”) to select a particular technology as the “standard” to which all products must conform. By